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Technology
👾 Cloudflare blocks 15M rps HTTPS DDoS attack
Earlier this month, Cloudflare’s systems automatically detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack — one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record.
👾 Log4j Attack Surface Remains Massive
Four months after the Log4Shell vulnerability was disclosed, most affected open source components remain unpatched, and companies continue to use vulnerable versions of the logging tool.
👾 India reveals plan to become major RISC-V design and production player by 2023
India’s government has announced a plan and roadmap for local semiconductor design and production, based on the open source RISC-V architecture, and set a goal of delivering world-class silicon by the end of next year.
👾 Telegram now lets users send cryptocurrency through TON blockchain spinoff
Telegram now lets users send Toncoin, the cryptocurrency built off of Telegram’s abandoned blockchain effort, directly from chats within the messaging app.
👾 And, yeah, Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Engineering
👾 Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts : Blue-Green Deployment
Progressive delivery was introduced which enables the delivery of software with the right changes to the right amount of customers at the right time.
👾 Kubectl detector for docker socket
A Kubectl plugin that can detect if any of your workloads or manifest files are mounting the docker.sock volume.
👾 Spotify Live: From Live to Recording
Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and stream live directly to fans who join the room.
👾 Automatically Detect Operational Issues in Lambda Functions with Amazon DevOps Guru for Serverless
It allows developers to improve the operational performance and availability of serverless applications.
👾 AWS CIDR finder - To quickly find unused CIDR blocks in your AWS VPC
👾 Kubernetes 1.25 Release Team Shadow Application
If you are interested in contributing to Kubernetes, start the journey here.
Interesting reads
👾 Be careful with that thing, it’s a confidential coffee maker - My favorite article of the week.
👾 Is crypto just one big Ponzi scheme?
👾 Please Don’t Say Just Hello In Chat - Please don’t.
👾 My crazy DNS dream - I was working late on a DNS issue when I wrote this article. I wanted to share a fun version of my pain. I wrote this around 2:30 AM, published it, and went to sleep.
If you are wondering, yes, I solved the issue.
Fun
I love comics. Here is one of my favorites. It’s a conversation between the Brain and Heart.
